Triathlon Advanced Coaching: Character and Timing

I have heard parents' concern about the lack of character in their kids.  They would like more character in what the kids do.  The “baby boomers” are facing this problem and Human Rights makes more difficult to redirect the boat.  I guess the parents have to live with it, paying for their own lack of character or ignorance/naiveté.  We have a problem of lack of character in our triathletes.  I have seen coaches working on character but they lack knowledge on how to do it; or simply, they do not know the basic stuff about the sport they coach (basic Physiology).

I have seen two films that I recommend to parents if they “want it bad” for their kids:

The Dutch film “Character” is extraordinary to teach where character come from; not what the players do. In the film, the father plays the Freudian game of the time.  In Mexico, we have a similar player with Maximilian (the only Mexican Emperor.  His last words were, "I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me. May my blood which is about to be shed, be for the good of the country. Viva Mexico, viva la independencia!".^[37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I_of_Mexico :

“Killing the Father” by Sigmund Freud

http://g0spel0fj0hn.com/2011/01/06/killing-the-father-by-sigmund-freud/

Last year, a film to teach character was released:

Whiplash.

This film received many criticisms, including the one from the Newyorker:

The core of the movie is the emotional and physical brutality that Fletcher metes out to Andrew, in the interest (he claims) of driving him out of self-satisfaction and into hard work. Fletcher levels an ethnic slur at Andrew, who’s Jewish; he insults his father, smacks him in the face repeatedly to teach him rhythm, hazes him with petty rules that are meant to teach military-style obedience rather than musical intelligence.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/whiplash-getting-jazz-right-movies

Whoever has kids knows that taking decisions is unavoidable and we have all the examples in front of us if we want to see (most of time we do not want to see.  Jacques Lacan would say: “L’amour, l’amour... C'est pour ça qu’on inventé l’inconscient”).  It is said that after 18-years of age the character does not change and it is well known to the groups of Alcoholic Anonymous that try very hard to change the course of life/death using techniques similar to the ones in the film.  Do you "want it bad?"